Amazing AI turns doodles into fine art

In the last year we've been both amazed and horrified by Google's DeepDream, which can turn any image into a psychedelic lizard-dog freak-out, and we've loved the results of DeepForger, which uses a similar process but instead turns pictures into more traditional works of art. The problem with both of these impressive techniques is that the results can be very random; there's no way of telling what you're going to get, or of tweaking the process to steer it in a particular direction. But now there's a new AI-powered algorithm that offers a lot more control and enables you create stunning artwork based on any painting you like. Neural Doodles is the work of Alex J Champandard, AI expert and the creator of DeepForger, and like DeepForger it'll create new works based on existing paintings. Unlike DeepForger, though, it allows you to direct how the work is created, using a process called Semantic Style Transfer.